To distract himself from the pain of life, Austin throws a tea party for his old college friends—but the day is disrupted by a major political event.
Keywords: 1800s , emily-dickinson , poetry , empathetic , excited , fictional-biography , foreboding , frightened , furious , gloomy , hopeful , intense , introspective , lesbian-relationship , lighthearted , sincere , wlw , writer , 19th-century